Foresight

"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fee...

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Otros Autores: Sherman, Lawrence W. (-), Feller, David Allan
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:"The idea of foresight is as old as recorded societies, as controversial as climate change, as interesting as a murder mystery, and as useful as an umbrella. It is a siren tempting journalists to dash themselves on the rocks of prediction, a competitive sport in which winners may claim high fees for their success-or even failure. Yet the greatest value of foresight is to change our futures, not just to predict them. Foresight embraces more than disengaged claims about what will happen; it can also engage lines of action in which foresight itself causes what happens next-either to confirm its prediction or avoid it"--
Descripción Física:1 recurso electrónico
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9781316788264